Civic Discourse, Civil Society, and Chinese Communities

Subjects:

• Communications » Communications (General)
• Communications » Political Communications
• Political Science » Political Science (General)
• Multicultural Studies » Asian Studies

Awards:

• IICD Outstanding Scholarship Award

Table of Contents:

• Preface
• Introduction: Civic Discourse and Civil Society in Chinese Communities, John H. Powers and Randy Kluver
• Part I: Civic Discourse and National Identity
• Elite-Based Discourse in Chinese Civil Society, Randy Kluver
• Journalistic Memoirs of China: The Discourse of Foreign Reporters, John H. Powers
• Part II: Emerging Patterns of Discourse in Chinese Civil Societies
• The Role of Rhetorical Topoi in Constructing the Social Fabric of Contemporary China, George Q. Xu
• Freedom of Religion in China: The Emerging Civic Discourse, Brent Fulton
• From Kaihui to Duihua: The Transformation of Chinese Civic Discourse, Wenshan Jia
• Ineffability and Violence in Taiwan's Congress, Jensen Chung
• Ideological Themes in Hong Kong's Public Service Announcements: Implications for China's Future, Lisa Cuklanz and Wendy Wong
• Part III: Modes of Civic Discourse in Chinese Communities
• From Lei Feng to Zhang Haidi: Changing Media Images of Model Youth in the Post-Mao Reform Era, Mei Zhang
• Televisual Discourse and the Mediation of Power: Living Room Dialogues with Modernity in Reform-Era China, William C. Godby
• Literature as Civic Discourse in the Reform Era: Utopianism and Cynicism in Chinese Political Consciousness, Shiping Hua
• Same Language, Yet Different: News Coverage of Clinton's China Visit by Two Prominent Newspapers, Mei Zhong
• (Re)locating Our Voices in the Public Sphere: Call-in Talk Shows as a Channel for Civic Discourse in Taiwan, Rueyling Chuang and Ringo Ma
• Kan Dashan as Civic Discourse in a Chinese Community, Shuming Lu
• The Internet as a Mode of Civic Discourse: The Chinese Virtual Community in North America, Dejun Liu
• Part IV: Civic Discourse Between China and the World
• The Pride of Zuguo: China's Perennial Appeal to the Overseas Chinese and an Emergent Civic Discourse in a Global Community, Dilin Liu and Canchu Lin
• China's Rhetoric of Socialization in its International Civic Discourse, D. Ray Heisey
• Civic Discourse with the International Community: China's Whitepapers on Human Rights, John H. Powers
• Rhetorical Adaptability in China's Argument for Most Favored Nation Status, Heping Zhao
• Civic Discourse in China-U.S. Relations: Great Leaps Forward and Backward, Mei-ling T. Wang
• Author Index
• Subject Index
• About the Editors
• About the Contributors